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The college payoff: ROI and economic mobility
We’ve rounded up the latest research on college ROI and economic mobility so you don’t have to.
A much-watched tech program aims to give alumni a second bite at a “good job”
Per Scholas has rolled out new training programs for its alumni, designed to help them keep moving up in their second and third jobs.
At USF, building a career supply chain
When the University of South Florida decided to start a supply chain management program, it built it hand-in-hand with industry.
Our nation’s primary workforce training program is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act has created a maze of training programs that people struggle to navigate, writes Steven Taylor of Stand Together Trust. States need more flexibility to try something new, he says.
The bully pulpit
Workforce education has become good national politics, but dollars have been slow to follow.
High-demand jobs, high-cost education
Community colleges often struggle to afford the facilities and instructors needed to educate students for high-demand fields like microelectronics and biotech. More are getting creative.
Texas poised to tie community college funding to ‘value’ and jobs
The state’s community colleges have been starved for resources. A new proposal would boost state funding by $650M—and tie much of it to economic outcomes.
Community college rolls out Local Econ 101 for staff
Lorain County Community College is credentialing their advising and career staff in regional economics—in hopes of connecting more students to in-demand jobs.
What happens when the ‘hybrid college’ goes virtual?
PelotonU, a pioneer of the hybrid college, is rethinking its approach in the wake of the pandemic. We talked to the nonprofit's co-founders about what has proven essential (coaching, and a lot of it) and what is open to change.
Missouri tries a new playbook—treating the unemployed like college applicants
The state is working with the company Wiley to recruit dislocated workers for education and training, rather than waiting for them to show up.